La Palina: Silver Label Toro Cigars

La Palina's history dates to Chicago 1896 when Ukrainian émigré Samuel Paley established Congress Cigar Company and released his debut blend: La Palina, named after his wife. At its height, Congress Cigar Co. rolled one million cigars per day, but the Great Depression doomed the factory, like so many other businesses, and the company folded — lost to time if not for Samuel's grandson Bill Paley, who resurrected the La Palina name in 2010. Committed to the same excellence as his grandfather, Bill Paley revived La Palina as a "personal, signature luxury cigar," and the brand custom-sources tobaccos and partners with renowned factories in Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Miami, USA, for a range of distinctive, premium cigars.

First released in 2019 as a limited-edition cigar only for TAA members, the Silver Label is among La Palina's most full-bodied blends, and it's now part of the brand's regular-production lineup. It showcases a Cuban-seed Oscuro wrapper from Honduras, complemented by a Costa Rican binder and fillers from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica — all hand-rolled at the El Paraíso factory in Danlí, Honduras.